Remember

Sadly, as teachers I think we tend to forget how true this is. I urge you to remember, and I use this as a constant reminder, that we have no idea what our students are coming to us with. A girl's mother may be missing, that boy may have lost his best friend to drugs..don't let them get lost in the sea of interminable faces.

Please remember what high school was like. Not the fantasized version we like to tell ourselves we experienced--remember the real version where you were scared to reveal who you really were because of the gossip and backstabbing.